The litter in littérateur.

Gendered food

Sep 30, 2009 By Ricky in General No Comments

Can someone explain this? Is there a women’s version too?

Using all five forces

Sep 30, 2009 By Ricky in General No Comments

I’ve frequently doubted the effectiveness of business frameworks as they’re used in companies and schools. However, I have realized that frameworks are very good at doing one thing: they allow people to pretend that decisions that should be subjective, political, and emotional are actually objective, technical, and quantitative.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-25

Sep 25, 2009 By Ricky in General No Comments

• MA should put Atul Gawande in Kennedy's vacant Senate seat. Brilliant! http://bit.ly/1dmohE #
• Just read Evan Ratliff's 2005 NYer piece, "The Zombie Hunters"–good stuff: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/zh #
• RT @lmcintire IKEA bookshelf, how does it feel do [sic] get totally owned? That's what I thought. [How does it feel to get sic'd?] #
• …et al, I'm warning you, @ChrisButterick is going to be in town next weekend. Beware. #
• "…a critic is nothing without an authoritative posture…against which an opposing outlook or proposition can be tested." -C. Ozick #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-18

Sep 18, 2009 By Ricky in General No Comments

• That's just Roger being Roger: http://bit.ly/16Qvi1 #
• US doctors overwhelmingly want a public option or single payer: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp0907876.pdf #
• When will pubs realize that subscription fees for apps suck? Make us pay a larger one-time fee rather than a small, incremental fee forever. #
• Condé Nast hired McKinsey to help them cut costs. This can't be good for my beloved @NewYorkerDotCom http://bit.ly/37Rb2F #McKinseyFAIL #
• I'm surprised that Doug Glanville didn't mention the athlete most recently cited for having kept it real: LeBron James. http://bit.ly/PHWxJ #
• Just saw the film Botany of Desire based on Michael Pollan's excellent book. Wondering when the long tail concept will come to food. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-11

Sep 11, 2009 By Ricky in General No Comments

• The issues with using Adobe CS3 with Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/NfiE6 #
• Ugh. I started reading the @NYTimes in high school because I didn't want to read about California! http://cnt.to/hDo (via @paidcontent) #
• Screening of the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers film version of Where the Wild Things Are in SF on 9/30 http://bit.ly/qfFXD #
• Police checkpoint on 19th heading south. Stay away–big traffic headache. #
• Picked up a signed copy of the new Lorrie Moore novel from @greenappleguy tonight. You should do the same! #
• People in Cole overheard my trying to remember yesterday's dinner, "I didn't have dinner. Nothing @CafeGratitude could count as dinner." #
• RT @mistahmoogle: @ricky_o, I told the Jiggaman to use the patented Ricky O. "Sup!" on his new song. http://blip.fm/~cxmda #
• RT @Emdashes: The NYer Festival schedule is up! http://bit.ly/mxK5T #
• Four tickets for $3 each, Lincecum scratched from his scheduled start, Giants loss. I guess you get what you pay for. #
• Forget the new iPods, this is the product announced today that I'll pine for: http://bit.ly/mEeNt #
• RT @vincelin: judy gave birth at 9:55 am to 7 lb 6 ounce vince jr. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-04

Sep 4, 2009 By Ricky in General No Comments

• Took BP at MA yesterday with @tylershores in 102-degree weather. #
• Listening to a great Fresh Air interview with Ted Kennedy from a few years ago: http://bit.ly/15BRtD #
• How is it that the New Yorker and NYTM both run profiles of the Bryan brothers in the same week? #
• PlayRadioPlay is a total Postal Service ripoff but still fun listening. #
• Had a Zuni Cafe burger for lunch. But where was @albertkchen? #
• Horray! A new book from Lorrie Moore and a profile of her in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/books/02moore.html #
• Can someone explain why the Gmail outage is a big deal? Are you really that dependent? Enable POP and use your own client + mail server. #
• Jonny Greenwood: MP3s encourage people "to own far more music than they can ever give their full attention to." http://bit.ly/32GrAX #
• Better yet, send a postcard or pick up the phone. #
• How to reverse "the victory of whatever can be quantified over everything that can't"? #
• More mags should be using their iPhone apps to drive sales of physical product like the Economist. #
• BlackBerry Desktop for the Mac is like three iPhones too late for me. #
• Okay, so who else got the I Am T-Pain iPhone app? @albertkchen #
• Found myself wishing my MacBook Pro had a fax modem today. #